greater even than that at the dawn of the human period; a revolution "in which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat; the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." It declares that the Judge shall descend at that day, and reward every man according to his works. There will remain no place for criticising spectators. All who are not supernaturally preserved shall meet the just punishment of their sins. Reader, are you prepared with a refuge for that day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men? Oh! make the Creator of the globe your friend! He makes you this proposal, that you shall confess and forsake your sins, and own Him as your Saviour and Lord, and he will cover you with his strength when the mountains are cast into the sea. "The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee." "We, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.' "The tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away."

"It follows that our record must be in the highest degree imperfect; and we have hardly a trace left of thick deposits, or any definite knowledge of the area they have occupied in a great many cases. And, mark this: That supposing even that the whole surface of the earth had been accessible to the geologist-that man had had access to every part of the earth, and had made sections of the whole and put them all together--even then his record must of necessity have been imperfect.

"But to how much has man really access?

Three fifths

of the surface of the earth is shut out from us because it is under the sea. Let us look at the other two fifths, and see what are the countries in which anything that may be termed searching geological inquiry has been carried out. .. Of the whole great mass of Africa, except parts of the southern extremity, we know next to nothing; little bits of India, but of the greater part of the Asiatic continent nothing; bits of the North American States and of Canada, but of the greater part of the continent of North America, and in still larger proportion of South America, nothing!

"Under these circumstances, it follows that, even with reference to that kind of imperfect information which we can possess, it is only about the ten-thousandth part of the accessible parts of the earth that has been examined properly. Therefore it is with justice that the most thoughtful of those who are concerned in these inquiries insist continually upon the imperfection of the geological record. For, I repeat, it is absolutely necessary, from the nature of things, that this record should be of the most fragmentary and imperfect character. Unfortunately, this circumstance has been constantly forgotten. Men of science, like young colts in a fresh pasture, are apt to be exhilarated on being turned into a new field of inquiry, to go off at a hand-gallop, in total disregard of hedges and ditches, to lose sight of the real limitation of these inquiries, and to forget the extreme imperfection of what is really known. Geologists have imagined that they could tell us what was going on at all parts of the earth's surface during a given epoch; they have talked of this deposit being contemporaneous with that deposit, until, from our little local histories of the changes at limited spots of the earth's surface, they have constructed a universal history of the globe as full of wonders and portents as any other story of antiquity."— Prof. Huxley, Lectures to Working Men.

ON THE ORIGIN OF LIFE.

THE ERRORS OF EVOLUTION.

ON THE ORIGIN OF LIFE.

I. WAS MAN EVOLVED FROM GRANITE ?

The errors and absurdities of evolutionists in attempting to account for the origin and structure of the heavens and of the earth without acknowledging an intelligent and almighty Creator, are obvious. And it is also clear that even with such a recognition of a Creator, neither God nor man could ever make a world, or anything else but nonsense, out of the Nebular Hypothesis of skeptical scientists.

We now come to examine the farther development of the hypothesis of atheistic philosophers, in the notion of the evolution of animal and vegetable life from the mechanical forces contained in the granite globe of nebular origin. We say mechanical forces, since all the chemical, electrical, and vital forces of nature are, by evolutionists, reduced to modes of motion, ultimately of the atoms, or, in the last analysis, of the molecules of matter. All existing plants, animals, and men, with all their activities, achievements, life, and reason, were originated from the original matter of the world by its own free and uncaused movements. Evolution is the antithesis of creation.